The Worship of Weapons - Page 2

Wayfarer · 03-13-2002, 06:56 PM

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Speaking of weapons... has anyone else ever tried to come up with a middle-earth weapon? That's been a hobby of mine.

dark over lord · 03-13-2002, 06:59 PM

no, but just off the top of my head: the ice sword. freezes anything it cuts.

Wayfarer · 03-13-2002, 07:12 PM

Didn't the nazgul dagger chill frodo when he was stabbed?

I don't know if an ice sword is very tolkien in any case. What i was talking about was... well, it's kind of hard to explain. Like saying... I wonder what glamdring looked like... and then trying to come up with a design. I've come up with some really neat ones... although most I've forgotten.

dark over lord · 03-13-2002, 07:14 PM

glamdring would look like my favorite sword: the kitana

TinuvielChild · 03-13-2002, 09:31 PM

there are some cool pictures of glamdring, sting, and the witch-king's sword on some of the sites that people have posted links to, although i don't remember what sites they were (sorry!)
glamdring rules!!

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-13-2002, 10:24 PM

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Originally posted by Wayfarer
I was really pissed by the elven swords.

They were just too fantasy. I mean... those things in the LA? And Arwen with a katana? Please.

My main beef is it's inconsistent. Arwen's sword is japanese. the The Hobbit's weapons are celtic. Gandalf's sword is pretty english. And Aragorn has a cross between a bastard sword and a small Claymore.

Yet all those weapons were likely made by the same people. Either the Numenoreans or the Elves. You'd think there'd be a bit of similarity.

Good point. But they still looked cool, even if it didn't match up. Arwen's katana is cool, but it doesn't quite fit. I was just admiring it for being a nice weapon, not because I thought it fit. . .same goes for the rest of the weapons. . .Besides, I don't really know that much about weapons, despite how much I love them. . .but I've always wanted to study swords.
Yeah, Elven rope is great stuff!

Slarge · 03-14-2002, 04:52 PM

Well, very good, but nothing does really stand a chance against an upset dwarf with a HUUUGE axe!
Gimlis axe is number one.
On second place comes his beard... a very awesome weapon! Just think what he should be able to do with it...

(Why are Narsil not reforged in Rivendell as it is in the books? That was the first thing that struck me as odd when I had seen the movie.)

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-14-2002, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Slarge

(Why are Narsil not reforged in Rivendell as it is in the books? That was the first thing that struck me as odd when I had seen the movie.)

Good question. . .
I think they plan on reforging it in one of the next movies, probably RotK, but I missed it in the first one!

03-13-2002, 06:56 PM	#21
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Ask a Mod. Speaking of weapons... has anyone else ever tried to come up with a middle-earth weapon? That's been a hobby of mine. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-13-2002, 06:59 PM	#22
dark over lord Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 41	no, but just off the top of my head: the ice sword. freezes anything it cuts. __________________ The question which once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for now I find, I have no choice at all. I am a warrior, let the battled be joined. -dinobot, and me, before i went and got myself shot- The sleeper has awakend, i am the prince of all sayans once again-Vegeta-

03-13-2002, 07:12 PM	#23
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	Didn't the nazgul dagger chill frodo when he was stabbed? I don't know if an ice sword is very tolkien in any case. What i was talking about was... well, it's kind of hard to explain. Like saying... I wonder what glamdring looked like... and then trying to come up with a design. I've come up with some really neat ones... although most I've forgotten. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-13-2002, 07:14 PM	#24
dark over lord Hobbit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 41	glamdring would look like my favorite sword: the kitana __________________ The question which once haunted my being has been answered. The future is not fixed, and my choices are my own. And yet, how ironic, for now I find, I have no choice at all. I am a warrior, let the battled be joined. -dinobot, and me, before i went and got myself shot- The sleeper has awakend, i am the prince of all sayans once again-Vegeta-

03-13-2002, 09:31 PM	#25
TinuvielChild Padawan Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Barony of Carolingia Posts: 2,176	there are some cool pictures of glamdring, sting, and the witch-king's sword on some of the sites that people have posted links to, although i don't remember what sites they were (sorry!) glamdring rules!! __________________ There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: ONLY LOVE. Dance as though nobody's watching. Sing as though nobody's listening. Dream as though you'll live forever. Live as though you'll die tomorrow. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO and proud! FRODO LIVES!!!!!

03-14-2002, 04:52 PM	#27
Slarge Sapling Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Falun-Sweden-Europe-Earth Posts: 2	One word: axe Well, very good, but nothing does really stand a chance against an upset dwarf with a HUUUGE axe! Gimlis axe is number one. On second place comes his beard... a very awesome weapon! Just think what he should be able to do with it... (Why are Narsil not reforged in Rivendell as it is in the books? That was the first thing that struck me as odd when I had seen the movie.)

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